Lucky finally laid sometime Sunday late afternoon!! We have eggs -- 7 healthy ones at 792 grams all together!!! I couldn't be happier!!
Some details on my crazy ass incubator. This is a very small incubator, can only hold one small clutch of eggs -- we have another that we've built from scratch that would be perfect for ball eggs and hold 4 clutches, but we're lacking on an extra Helix/thermostat at the moment, so this one will do since it has one built in.
Frank is a mechanic for Dupont in New Jersey, but he services several of their sites in Delaware. One place in particular has an office called "Redeployment," where they sell stuff from several different Dupont sites that are no longer useful. The stuff they sell is never bad or broken, just not needed -- for example, they sell a computer because they bought the newer model, and they sold this incubator for $20.00 because they got a larger one. It's pretty cool that its meant for different types of eggs. You can see the apparatus attached to the inside right -- the posts actually spin full time. There was actually metal bars that floated across, meant to keep eggs spinning and floating constantly. It has proven to work steadily for 3 weeks now -- we've kept it running and tested the temperature ever day with our Temp Gun.
What the eggs are kept in is a waterproof (tested by me
) childrens holder-toy-type deal for $9.00 at CVS, and it fits in flawlessly -- it was a lucky find. The outsides are clear plastic and the base and top are metal. We'll have to keep an eye out for rust, but it has been coated in paint, so we should be okay. We have it sitting on an egggrate with pre-heated 2:1 Perlite/Water Mixture underneath, and it seems to be working out well -- the water isn't sitting at the bottom fully or anything. You can't see the humidity gauge in the photo, and the incubator itself is set at 33 degrees Celsius (alittle over 89 degrees Fahrenheit). The screen at the top actually says it, but the flash wiped it out.
I know the eggs look tight-fitting in there, but it is actually exactly how they were laid as they had already adhered together, and they slid in the container perfectly without having to tilt them at all -- there's about an inch around them all to the walls -- I think the glass on the door may be playing tricks with the camera. We'll just have to keep an eye when they hatch, since it is small.
Some of you remember the post before of where I was concerned she would have trouble laying or that she would go egg bound. You can read/see the details here:
http://www.darksidereptiles.com/forum/index.php?topic=781.0She still feel like she has a hard lump in her. I'm gonna take her to work soon and get her Radiographed and checked out. Still ecstatic tho!!
